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The Name of the Rose meets The Book of the Dead in a new prestige zombie drama. The Eternaut gets a second season at Netflix. Plus, what’s to come on the next episodes of The Last of Us and Doctor Who. Spoilers, away! Rapture Relatedly, Deadline reports Will Poulter, Kit Connor and Manu Rios will star in Rapture, a Medieval zombie film marking the feature debut of playwright Jordan Tannahil. Set in Medieval England in the year 1348, the story “alights on Lansley Abbey, a remote stone monastery in Yorkshire, which houses ten monks bound by a life of strict routine and devotion. Their fragile peace is disrupted by the arrival of a messenger – a man with haunting news from the outside world who rapidly shows symptoms of a mystery illness. A virulent plague is spreading through the land: marked initially by a hemorrhagic fever, it turns its victims into ‘revenants’ — restless, undead beings. As the contagion closes in, Lansley Abbey becomes a battleground: desperate outsiders beg for ref ... Read full article.